• Nanette M. Dowling, D.O., M.H.P.A., geriatric psychiatrist, has been appointed research director at The Rodney S. and Marjorie Fink Institute of Research on Aging. Dr. Dowling will assume responsibility for the applied research agenda of the Institute, housed at Menorah Park of CNY, focusing on geriatric mental health. Dr. Dowling, also serving as an attending psychiatrist and associate professor at SUNY-Upstate Medical University in the Department of Psychiatry, is board-certified in psychiatry with a sub-specialty in geriatric psychiatry. She completed her psychiatry residency at SUNY-Upstate and a geriatric fellowship at Columbia University and Greater Binghamton Health Center. Dr. Dowling also holds a master's degree in health policy and administration and received a doctor of osteopathy degree from Touro University.

• Alfred Boudreau, CPA has joined Firley, Moran, Freer & Eassa, CPA, P.C., as a manager in the tax department. He joins after seven years with a national public accounting firm where he specialized in corporate taxation. Boudreau holds a master's degree from the University at Albany.

• Lauren Paone, audit staff, with Dannible & McKee, LLP has successfully completed and passed all four parts of the exam to become a certified public accountant. She joined the firm in 2012. Paone is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo. She resides in Baldwinsville.

• Danica Netti has been hired as an acquisition specialist at Virtucom Group in Syracuse. She is a graduate of Ithaca College.

• New members of the medical staff at St. Joeph's Hospital Health Center in Syracuse are: